Kasz216 said:
Bladeneo said:
Kasz216 said:
Bladeneo said:
The hate for Miami really is quite funny; LeBron no doubt handled the situation terribly but it was well within his right to leave an awfully managed Cleveland team. I'm sure he got sick of making Mike Brown look like an above average coach, and after Dan Gilbert's comments, his decision was all the more vindicated.
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Saying he handled it terribly was an understatement.
There was like no way he could of handled that worse without committing a crime.
It's probably the worse PR move ever.
Outside of like... OJ Simpson killing his wife... and the sad thing is... that's not an exageration.
That's the only time I can think of public opinion swaying this much.
One thing that I really think sets people off is a subconsious realization of the trouble that would bring if more people DID do this.
Think about it. Money doesn't REALLY matter, 30 million or 25 million does it matter for the stars when they have 80 million dollar shoe deals?
So lets say stars start making superteams like Lebron and Wade did.
There is no point in having a team outside of Florida, California, New York, and Texas.
They offer way more then any of the midmarket teams can in the terms of intangibles.
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To be honest I think you're forgetting quite how good the teams used to be back in the 80s and 90s. Jordan, Pippen and Rodman? Bird, Parish, McHale (and Len Bias had superstar potential remember). The Jazz had Stockton and Malone, the Hawks had Dominique and Moses Malone in the late 80s too.
Hell, look at the Lakers now, and even the Celtics, they're aging but those teams are stacked; Lebron and Wade being together doesn't put them over those teams.
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The Utah Jazz and the Atlanta Hawks you mean? Teams that stacked themselves through having good GMs?
It's a bit different then 3 friends deciding to play together in Miami because they like the club scene.
What Superstars are willingly going to want to team up and go to Utah?
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That's the point though, LeBron would have stayed in Cleveland but nobody wanted to go there and they didn't exactly have the most enticing supporting cast anyway. The Cavs were so intent on giving LeBron players that were only good on paper or past their prime rather than make a decent trade to get him a good enough supporting cast.
I don't think the league is all of a sudden going to turn into a make your own super team marathon. There are young, good teams and there are stacked teams already, Miami have just added through free agency like most good teams do. They added a superstar, which admittedly is a very rare feat to accomplish in free agency but I can't remember many MVP's playing with such an awful roster and sticking around for more than seven years.
